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Dining Room Color Ideas

Dining rooms are important rooms of the home where you gather with cherished loved ones to socialize over a meal. When it comes to designing your ideal dining room, color is one of the first topics to approach. Depending on what colors you choose for the walls, chairs, furniture, and accent decor, you can create whatever style and tone you want. To help you decide on your dining room's look, here are some of our favorite dining room color ideas along with tips, tricks, and inspiration photos.

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Balancing Complexity

If you have an eclectic dining room, then plain white walls may suit your room best. The simple, neutral wall color allows other accents and patterns to shine without making the room feel chaotic or disorganized. Like this room, you may use different tribal patterns to make a statement, or you can include different textures and colors to showcase your unique style.

Calming Curtains

The color of your walls isn't the only thing to consider when it comes to dining room colors. In fact, like this room, you may have windows that cover the majority of the walls and limited sight of the main walls. In these scenarios, consider how your dining room curtain colors can convey the proper tone and create ambiance.

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Neighboring Spaces

Even if you don't have an open floor plan, it is still important to consider how your dining room's color scheme connects to adjacent spaces. In this case, the neighboring living room and dens each feature bright cream and yellow tones. The dining room however has a more focused color palette that is more neutral than anything. This subtle difference helps set the room apart without the space clashing with neighboring rooms.

Accent Walls

Accent walls are coming back into style, but in today's era, it's typically not just a different colored wall. Modern accent walls tend to feature wallpaper, panelling, or some other level of detailing to create a very intentional design moment. Like this room, your accent wall color may play on the room's other colors by presenting the color in a new shade and depth. There are many ways to do accent walls, so you can choose the style that best suits you.

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A Solid Foundation

If you're struggling to choose a color scheme for your dining room, try starting by choosing a rug. Rugs feature a wide range of different color schemes, and they can guide you through designing the rest of the room. In this space, the blue and grey tones of the rug continue in the wall art and the dining chairs, which makes the room's color scheme feel well rounded and intentional.

Rich Warmth

Traditional and classic dining rooms tend to use warm creams and beiges to create a welcoming aesthetic. However, to add more regal depth to your dining room, consider moments of drama with your area rug, dining chairs, table, and other accents. These decorative elements and furniture present unique opportunities to use complementary colors or create a bold statement.

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Retro

Most of modern furniture is very neutral. One way to break away from that norm iis to include colored dining room chairs. This is easier in mid century modern and contemporary spaces, but you can also include different colored chairs in farmhouse, eclectic, and boho dining rooms as well!

Vibrant

Vibrant reds, oranges, and yellows can create a festive, fun dining room that everyone will enjoy being in. These colors are often associated with tribal, global, and contemporary styles, but you can incorporate them in different shades and patterns to suit your aesthetic.

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Fine Details

Aside from considering the color of the walls and furniture, it's also important to consider accent metals. In this room, warm gold tones complement the calm blues and whites of the rest of the room. Gold lamps and chandeliers make a very different statement than bronze, chrome, or other metals, so as you design your room, consider what metal(s) best suit your desired tone.

Focus

It's possible to use the same color again and again without the dining room feeling boring. In this room, blue is a recurring color that's used in several different shades, materials, textures, and finishes. By varying the colors in these ways, you can create a focused yet diverse dining room design.

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Outdoor Dining

Outdoor dining areas can be so stylish with different colors and patterns! If you want a more naturalistic outdoor dining space, focus on neutral tones or colors that appear frequently in nature. The blue rug here is complementary to the blue sky, and it fits right in against the lush greenery off the balcony's edge.

Pattern Mixing

Perhaps you're basing your dining room's color palette on an existing pattern you love. This dining room clearly centers on the wallpaper, which features different shades of blue and floral prints. While the chairs don't have the same pattern (or even the same motifs), it does have a similar color palette, which helps create a cohesive dining room. When it comes to pattern mixing in dining rooms, you can use color to bridge the gap and create complementary pairings.

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Grounding

One way to design a dining room is to choose a dark color to serve as the base and lighter colors to fill the rest of the room. A dark area rug, like the one shown here, can ground the dining table and establish that area as a key focal point. In the meantime, the rest of the room's wall color and curtains draw on a lighter accent color from the rug. While you don't have to follow this room's example directly, you can see how beneficial it is in establishing the table's presence and unique place in the room.

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Soothing Greens

Green is a beautiful color that comes in many different tones and shades. Dark greens can convey a rustic tone, light green a modern country feel, or a warm green a more traditional vibe. Whether you lean boho, traditional, modern, or some other style direction, green dining rooms are ideal for any style.

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Dare To Go Dark

Many people are afraid to paint dining rooms with dark colors. However, it can be worth the risk to create a bold statement! Balance out those dark walls with light furniture and accents, or lean fully into the scheme to create a more moody dining space.


Dining room paint colors can be tricky to decide on, and so can the colors of your furniture, accents, and general decor. Fortunately, there's no "right" answer on what the best dining room colors are--the best dining room colors are the ones that suit your room, your aesthetic, and your tone. With all that in mind, you can go forward with these dining room color ideas and begin to design your ideal dining room.

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